Anna Katila
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Katila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Katila |
| SIGNATURE | KATILA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Comparative Literature, King’s College London, London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1190-6161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
African Writers as Theorists
In 1998, writers Véronique Tadjo and Boris Boubacar Diop traveled to Rwanda for two months with nine other African authors to participate in a literary project by Fest’Africa festival. The authors were tasked to write about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tadjo’s response is a hybrid text entitled The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda, while Diop wrote a novel, Murambi, The Book of Bones. The authors’ writing explores…
Challenging positions
This article explores Yolande Mukagasana and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s highly aestheticised testimonial writing about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and the Bosnian War. My analysis of Mukagasana’s Not My Time to Die and Mehmedinović’s Sarajevo Blues opens up a rich comparison that demonstrates the problematic nature of a social expectation and assumption that a survivor is active and strong in contrast to a passive and helpless victim. To unp…
Unearthing Ambiguities
This article examines Raoul Peck’s portrayal of post-genocide justice in Rwanda in his film Sometimes in April (2005). The film, which depicts the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and its aftermath a decade later, resonates with the ICTR case Prosecutor v. Nahimana et al. with its focus on hate speech as genocide. The shared questions connect the two distinct narrative forms that are part of the global social discourse on Rwanda, allowing them to …
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Unearthing Ambiguities
This article examines Raoul Peck’s portrayal of post-genocide justice in Rwanda in his film Sometimes in April (2005). The film, which depicts the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and its aftermath a decade later, resonates with the ICTR case Prosecutor v. Nahimana et al. with its focus on hate speech as genocide. The shared questions connect the two distinct narrative forms that are part of the global social discourse on Rwanda, allowing them to …
Challenging positions
This article explores Yolande Mukagasana and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s highly aestheticised testimonial writing about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and the Bosnian War. My analysis of Mukagasana’s Not My Time to Die and Mehmedinović’s Sarajevo Blues opens up a rich comparison that demonstrates the problematic nature of a social expectation and assumption that a survivor is active and strong in contrast to a passive and helpless victim. To unp…
African Writers as Theorists
In 1998, writers Véronique Tadjo and Boris Boubacar Diop traveled to Rwanda for two months with nine other African authors to participate in a literary project by Fest’Africa festival. The authors were tasked to write about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tadjo’s response is a hybrid text entitled The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda, while Diop wrote a novel, Murambi, The Book of Bones. The authors’ writing explores…
Genocide (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work) · Bosnian (1 work) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 work) · Conceptualization (1 work)